Blind 20/20 Vision

I remember my common entrance teacher Mr. John having the loudest, longest, most effective "steups" ever. That steups was worst than the subsdequent cut arse that was to follow the ideosyncrasy of sucking one's teeth with the use of the tongue.

It is a steups that I envy up to this day, some 12 years later, a steups that I am jealous of and wish I could imitate when I hear talk about Vision 20/20 and moving to 1st world status. STEUPS!!!

Everytime I drive on my nation's roads, peruse the daily and weekly (doh talk fuh dat!) newspapers, stand in line waiting for service or to cash only to have someone with, "Oh gosh, ah have somebody waitin in mih car" cut in line, deal with the public service, return defective items to million dollar revenue businesses only to be told of some asinine return policy, test my driving skills dodging potholes, inverted potholes, soon to pave wasa trenches and yadda yadda yadda...I'm reminded of how 3rd world we are and how 1st world we have a long way to go.

Case in point, there was an accident on friday night in cocorite and traffic heading west was backed up all the way to the national stadium. Some drivers, most of them probably rushing home to have bowel movements, decided to turn around and head east along the northbound lane of the western main road. Yes, east. There could've been more accidents that night due to this nonsense. This cannot be the behaviour of a civilised society.

The only people who will ever see Vision 20/20 in Trinidad is those with prescription glasses like myself. Maybe Manning is planning to outfit the nation with spectacles and contacts by 2020...